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Unfortunately not true, at least for wind energy in europe. It tends to fall (or blow) all over europe at the same time. And, even worse, the wind tends to sto
by martinald 4y ago
Unfortunately not true, at least for wind energy in europe. It tends to fall (or blow) all over europe at the same time.
And, even worse, the wind tends to stop blowing in winter when it is extremely cold (highest demand days) and there is virtually no solar. It's becoming a serious problem in Northern Europe.
- nl 4y agoThis is only true is you look at Northern Europe. Southern Europe is more windy in winter as can be seen by wind power generation in Spain, where the highest generation is November-February: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1289540/monthly-wind-power-generation-spain/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1289540/monthly-wind-pow... Edit: actually in the UK there is usually more wind power generated in December and January too: https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/publications/downloads/sinden05-dtiwindreport.pdf https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/publications/downloads/sinden05-dti... (pg 3)
- flavius29663 4y agoyou can't go by averages, lulls happen generally during winter, and freezing for 2 weeks means there is little consolation to know that the month still had an above average production.
- nl 4y agoWhich is why you have geographic redundancy into other weather patterns. North Western Europe is dominated by the gulf stream. Southern Europe isn't. The winds do not correlate at all.
- flavius29663 4y ago> Which is why you have geographic redundancy into other weather patterns. Exactly...and one of them is Morocco. The UK is already connected to France for nuclear power, Norway for hydro, it makes sense to connect to Africa for sun power.
- nl 4y agoI think we are adamantly agreeing?